Respite
Written and recorded by Sonja Tofik in Stockholm and Paris 2023 Visual by Viktor Fordell
. Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome. With 'Respire', Stockholm's Sonja Tofik presents a collection of works that cluster around themes of disunion and contemplation. In two halves, tiers of synthetic materials are layered into sullen reveries with organic components and concrète treatments, and as the obscurity of their genesis reaches a crescendo, these delicate and foreboding compositions fin…
Ohne Titel
*300 copies limited edition* Helmut Neidhardt, Chris Sigdell and Sascha Stadlmeier first met in 2020. They decided to record together and booked a studio in Dortmund. The recording session was spontaneous and somewhat chaotic. Thus it turned out, that only Helmut’s tracks were really usable. Using some sections as a basis, Chris completely re-recorded his guitar, added a little bit of vocal here and there, and then sent a rough mix to Sascha, who in turn added violin and musique concrete. The fi…
Reality Engine
The third and final LP in 36's synth trilogy is now available. Reality Engine continues the melodic, melancholy machine sound started with Wave Variations and Symmetry Systems, exploring the blossoming dynamics of artificial intelligence and the ever-changing definition of reality. Over the course of the five years gracing our roster, the multifaceted essence of 36's sound reverberates with unmistakable diversity. His sonic repertoire, rich in variation and innovation, has consistently evolved, …
Beyond the Flat Earth
Tip! *300 copies limited release* "Fallen Sun, the noise/industrial moniker of Reverse Image from Malaysia, approaches the creation of noise music through the layering of sonic textures aligned with a sense of space and movement. Using Harsh Noise Wall as distant inspiration, she takes the seed of an idea and expands and contracts it, before further compressing and then twisting it, layer upon layer, until the idea has morphed into itself. 'Beyond the Flat Earth’'s ten concise tracks explore thi…
R.E.K. 1
*2024 stock* R.E.K. 1 is the singular album by German New Wave/electro-pop musician Richard Edward Kersten, performing under his initials with studio partner Frithjof Krepp. The album was released in 1983 on RCA. 35 years anniversary edition.
Final Alley
*2024 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Cosmic heads, here comes one of your your dream releases of 2020. Final Alley is the 1980 follow up to Alex Cima’s sought after debut „Cosmic Connection“ from 1979. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft/Polydor label was intersted to release it in 1980 as well as they did with the first album „Cosmic Connection“ but „Final Alley“ remained and insanely rare promo only release. US based producer Alex Cima returning with his cosmic funk and psychedelic Disco on t…
Let's Go Into Space VI
Private Records presents „Let’s Go Into Space 6“. The collector series continues with another collection of scarce and unreleased 1980’s Italo Disco, Electro, Cosmic Disco songs. This time also with some sunny Reggae vibes and dozends of different vinyl colors aswell gimmicks cover with tangram game + Private Records sticker set. A lot of the featured songs cost about 200 € on Discogs and all are really amazing creating togehter this perfect album.
Let's Go Into Space VII
The hottest 1980’s cosmic italo disco songs from the Czech national music archive bundled on one album. Supraphon was founded in 1932 and is the biggest original music company of East Europe since now. They sold their vinyls also in own Supraphon music shops until the 1990’s and have more than 100000 master tape recordings in their archive. The shop in Prague is still active. It was a honor to license these rare and undiscovered recordings. The best singers and the finest musicians + even featur…
Journey Into The Unknown
The official re-release of the scarce DJ classic. Ralf Nowy produced this unique mix of Krautrock, Space Disco and proto Techno vibes in Berlin in 1980. The collaboration featuring also famous German star producer Jack White and Tom Muller as well Vicky Brown from UK as singer who worked together also with bands as for example Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Cerrone and Bryan Ferry.
Non Standard Institute Plays Non Standards
Non Standard Institute is a piano drone project by sound engineers Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric) and Tobias Freund (Pink Elln, Sieg Ûber Die Sonne), both prominent techno producers whose careers date back the mid-1980’s.
Compared to their earlier work in, “Plays Non Standards” is an exploration into a completely different direction. The music is based on the sounds of the grand piano played by Loderbauer and the subtle electronic “treatments” by Freund, with the help of vintage Roland DEP 5 and …
Computer Comics 1984-1987
Hardcover Edition, large format. Italian Edition. Tutti i computer comics dei Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici per la prima (e unica) volta raccolti in un solo volume. Pionieri di un utilizzo espressivo del personal computer, proprio quando questo irresistibile strumento del futuro entrava nelle nostre case, la produzione multimediale dei Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici o GMM ha rappresentato la quintessenza della cultura postmoderna italiana, un modello di contaminazione di media, linguaggi, generi e …
In These Coming Days
Hauras is the newly christened project for Howard Ryan, an idiosyncratic san francisco musician who had previously operated under the snickers moniker. this new name hauras translates from the finnish as ‘fragile,’ and a certain fragility exists as a dialectic condition to ryan’s strange sounds. the argument could be made that ryan is a deconstructionist of the archetypal ‘rock’ song, dissembling it into eerie echoes of guitar noise and narcoleptic vocals, something akin to michael morely’s work…
Broken Air
Vertonen is the work of Blake Edwards, a veteran of the chicago noise and experimental scene. with close to 100 releases many of them published through his own crippled intellect productions and ballast imprints spread over several decades, edwards has finetuned his craft of cryptically inclined, electronic invocations that might channel the raw brutality of industrial machinery or the existential claustrophobia of a submariner's voyage nearing its untimely end. there are numerous aesthetic face…
Ode To Marco Veronesi
This compilation is dedicated to Marco Veronesi one of the original members of ADN label who died in 2013 after a long illness. Featured are recent inedited pieces of artists that were important in the history of ADN during the Eighties. It features unreleased tracks by
abundance
"abundance" is the new album by Iksre (Phoebe Dubar) composed of eight tracks, eachoffering positive, elevating, shimmering, and textural sonic experiences. The songsincorporate layered vocals, viola, analog and software synths, binaural beats, and uniquesound healing instruments. Iksre (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere), creates ambientmusic that teeters on the edge of danceability, inviting listeners to connect themselves to theabundance that surrounds them.
The creative process leading to th…
Sunder
*300 hand-numbered copies limited edition* "Sunder is the first full-length collaboration between Brooklyn-based Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) and Denver-based Jason Corder (aka offthesky). After years of independent work amid a like-minded community of ambient experimentalists, the two were brought together by the collaboration-centric Laaps label, for whom Corder has previously worked with Craig Tattersall (aka The Humble Bee). Across Sunder's eight chapters, we hear careful construction…
Half Dead Ganja Music
Platform 23 Records’ meandering, and sporadic journey continues, digging up archival treasures of known and unknown music sonics. The label’s close association with Paris’ based ‘ethno-industrialists’ Vox Populi! continues, here returning to their most heralded and possibly cohesive album, in Half Dead Ganga Music.
The beautifully apt title precedes their most intense trip, pushing the boundaries away from the percussive psychedelic of albums ‘Mystcitismes’ (1985) and Aither’ (1989) to create …
Pithovirii
Glacial Movements is proud to present the soundscapes of Canadian artist Aidan Baker. His first appearance was with the song "Beneath the Ice" on "Cryosphere", the first and only compilation of the entire catalogue. Then in 2013, with "Aneira" (Welsh for 'snow') composed exclusively for GM, through the use of the 12-string acoustic guitar. Pithovirii is his new concept album, which was in part inspired by Vladimir Sorokin's novel Ice Trilogy which in turn led to reading about the Tunguska meteor…
Habitat
Nothing short of a revelation, the Italian composer Angelo Petronella reemerges after nearly a decade and a half of silence with “Habitat”, a stunning 5CD career spanning box set of works composed between 1981 and 2022. Comprising 27 tracks at the borders of radical musique concrète and electroacustic invention, guided by deft and subtle hand over the decades into total, immersive sound environments - each informing what has been heard and yet to be heard - its totality places Petronella in the …
Traces of Time (A Musical Anthology)
Big Tip! * LP + Zine * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Emerald Web (Bob Stohl and Kat Epple), was a husband and wife duo who each played both synthesizers and flutes, and were pioneers in Electronic Music and music technology. They created a melodic brew of Fantasy, Space, and New Age music from 1977-1990 on an array of analog synths which were “state of the art” (now-vintage) analog synthesizers including Lyricon 1 Electronic Wind Instrument, Arp 2600, Moog, sequencers and many more, along…